[ale] Fwd: Jim - cannot post this message to ALE, please post for me

[Rich Faulkner]

Use common sense.  Don't take tax records and sensitive data about on
your laptop.  Don't expose high value items to high risk situations
(like theft!)  Go with a basic laptop with what you need and nothing
else.  Keep it simple and you won't likely have any problems...  

Rich


On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:09 -0400, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:

> 
> Hi HP, and all,
> 
> That's good info.  Thanks.
> 
> I get the concept of having proper docs, not taking plants, food, animals, antiquities, weapons, etc. without proper docs, and not acting like a terrorist.  But I'm especially interested in what to do with my computer.  I have legal stuff, but not necessarily politically correct.  And, things like my tax records and passport records are there, so I wouldn't really want it searched or seized.  Just Google something like border crossing computer horror story, etc., or review archives from the EFF, and similar organizations, and it's easy to find incidences of people being harassed without "enough" cause, and whose rights were violated.  Now, if this doesn't generally apply to the Canada / US border, that's fine with me.  But, I'm wondering if you guys have thoughts about the need to protect information.  Some people encrypt their hard drive, etc.  But, then they can demand you unlock it.  I'm thinking that if I just take a plain vanilla install of Ubuntu, in the unlikely even
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>   they want to question us, they can look all they want.  Nothing there to see.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
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